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At the height of the Nazi party and Adolf Hitler’s reign during World War II, the party began changing and influencing daily life in Germany. Their tactics of propagating, not only the Nazi Party leader, Adolf Hitler, but also his

Following the failure of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler found himself in prison and his party, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (more commonly known, and hereafter referred to, as the Nazi party), officially disbanded. Despite the severity

This poster depicts a large, portly Jewish man behind the Soviet, British and American flags, with the translated caption: “Behind Enemy Lines – the Jew!” (Getty Images). Little is known about this poster, except that the artist was named Hamil

The 1930s saw a rise in German power across the European continent. They had successfully annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia without any military response from the West. They had managed to successfully remilitarize thanks to the defiant attitudes of the Nazi

Raising up one side’s message while exaggerating and painting others’ messages as extreme is an appeal of propaganda that has been used for political purposes across time and place. Addressing looming threats of oppressive ideologies from communists to Jewish people,

German propaganda through WWII would be used for many purposes including patriotism, education, and the anti-sematic depictions of non-German people. In this poster released in 1938, a German soldier stands at the center of the image holding a shovel in

The Nuremberg Rally is considered one of the most effective propaganda schemes of the Nazi Party of Germany. The Nazi Party held the annual rally in late August or September from 1923 to 1938. They were large Nazi propaganda events,

Radio and broadcasting has been used as a tool for propaganda over the course of its existence, especially during the Second World War. Between 1939 and 1940 a U.S. born man by the name William Joyce recorded and announced German

World War II was a massive source of pieces of propaganda all over the world. Nazi Germany, specifically, commemorated several occasions during Hitler’s reign and WWII with a run of postage stamps that depicted the event. Many of these

This Nazi propaganda poster, produced by Nazi propagandist Hans Schweitzer and initially released in the summer of 1940 by the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, translates to “Smash the Enemies of Greater Germany”. In this piece, a strong,

Propaganda during World War II blatantly attempts to stir emotions in support of one nation over another. Along with this concept is the attempt of one nationality to place itself over another in society. In Germany especially, Jews were “at

The entertainment industry often uses propaganda to communicate the objectives behind the productions created and media crafted to interest and hold the attention of its intended audience. Amazon Studios is one entertainment company that artistically created a dystopian television show that